Black Sand Beach, v2 2024 Mixed media: Acrylic and chalkboard paint on canvas 48"x60" On view at The Artist Project, Toronto. April 11-14, 2024. Booth 925. As an intuitive painter, I'm never quite sure what will come out on the canvas. I start painting and observe as the work evolves. These paintings surprised me... the color scheme, the glow. Where did these images come from? My work is strongly influenced by feelings and childhood memories... it took me a few days to find the memory of this. In the 80's my mother wanted to write a children's book. I don't remember if she ever got to a story, but we would sit at the kitchen table with markers and create "illustrations" for the book. It was very 80's, can you feel Keith Haring's influence? Dayglow colors and glowing orbs, even pyramids ala "Desperately Seeking Susan". I love the nostalgia in these pieces. As for the title, "Black Sand Beach", a beach is a place of contemplation, while black sand is volcanic. The energy of volcanoes provides the foundation of new land and new life. All of this plays into themes of rebirth and renewal in my work.

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Linds Miyo is a self-taught, intuitive painter, known for process-based works that drift between abstraction and expressionism. Linds is interested in the interplay between our intentions and that which is beyond our control, the meeting place of our best efforts and happenstance. She begins each canvas with textured black underpainting, a striking visual representation of the gravity of emotions past. That textural contrast, amidst layers of joyful colour, moves the eye through these balanced works. In these unique paintings, the dark relief of the past is folded into the multi-dimensional present day, with an engaging sense of truth, wonder, and story.